WP:CFD/T

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Discussion for Today

This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_April_25

April 25

NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:Iași in fiction

Propose deleting Category:Iași in fiction (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: delete, not a very defining characteristic of the only article in the category. The article is already in Category:Novels set in Romania. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:17, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Battles involving the Maratha Confederacy

Propose renaming Category:Battles involving the Maratha Confederacy to Category:Battles involving the Maratha Empire

Nominator's rationale: Per the recent move on Talk:Maratha Confederacy#Requested move 17 April 2025. Shakakarta (talk) 15:13, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why has only this category been nominated? There is a whole tree under Category:Maratha Confederacy. Also, I suppose this can be speedied. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:21, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I don't know how to nominate all of those categories at once. I can nominate them individually, but if they can all be speedied, then doing so individually would be redundant. Shakakarta (talk) 16:07, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Casablanca in fiction

Propose merging Category:Casablanca in fiction to Category:Casablanca

Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:40, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Azerbaijani music stubs

Propose merging Category:Azerbaijani music stubs to Category:Azerbaijan stubs and Category:Music stubs

Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated stub category, with no evidence of approval by WikiProject Stub sorting. As always, stub categories are not free for any editor to create at will for just a small handful of topics -- the minimum bar for the creation of a stub category is 60 articles, and for that reason stub categories have to be proposed to the Wikiproject for approval before they can be created. But there's no evidence that the creator of this ever followed that process, and there are just four articles here -- and while Category:Azerbaijani people stubs does have some musician templates, those aren't on enough people to get this over 60 pages even if they were modified to add the people here. Bearcat (talk) 14:25, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mythological kings of Denmark

Propose renaming Category:Mythological kings of Denmark to Category:Legendary kings of Denmark

Nominator's rationale: rename per List of legendary kings of Denmark, similar to Category:Semi-legendary kings of Sweden. This is unrelated to Norse mythology. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:03, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Burials in Nigeria

Propose deleting Category:Burials in Anambra State
Propose deleting Category:Burials in Bauchi State
Propose deleting Category:Burials in Delta State
Propose deleting Category:Burials in Edo State
Propose deleting Category:Burials in Ekiti State
Propose deleting Category:Burials in Kano State
Propose deleting Category:Burials in Katsina State
Propose deleting Category:Burials in Kwara State
Propose deleting Category:Burials in Lagos State
Propose deleting Category:Burials in Nasarawa State
Propose deleting Category:Burials in Niger State
Propose deleting Category:Burials in Ogun State
Propose deleting Category:Burials in Ondo State
Propose deleting Category:Burials in Oyo State
Propose deleting Category:Burials in Sokoto State

Nominator's rationale: delete, the category tree is meant to contain subcategories with cemeteries and other burial places, but there are only biographies in here. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:22, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Journalism conferences

Propose splitting Category:Journalism conferences to Category:Conferences and Category:Journalism

Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated category that I wasn't able to populate. Upmerge for now. ^SMason_Garrison 03:24, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge but only to Category:History of journalism because the article is already in Category:2016 conferences. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:49, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Vadodara district geography stubs

Propose merging Category:Vadodara district geography stubs to Category:Gujarat geography stubs

Nominator's rationale: There are less than 60 transclusions for this template (as of right now) - OpalYosutebito 『talk』『articles I want to eat』 02:25, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:50, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ethnic Hungarian people

Propose merging Category:Ethnic Hungarian people to Category:Hungarian people

Nominator's rationale: redundant category layer that overlaps with Hungarian diaspora ^SMason_Garrison 02:59, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, I have further populated the category, in its new state it might stay. It is certainly not diaspora anyway, it is a matter of shifting country borders in the course of history. Note that the main article is Hungarians so the category might also be renamed to Category:Hungarians and become a parent category of Category:Hungarian people. Marcocapelle (talk) 03:29, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Marcocapelle's comment?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, House Blaster (talk • he/they) 00:56, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Meanwhile I think the latter solution is even better than just keep, it is a kind of WP:C2D and Category:History of the Hungarians can be added to it as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:53, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Palestinian people of Syrian descent

Propose ~~deleting~~ Category:Palestinian people of Syrian descent (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: The subcat is probably about to be renamed without "Syrian", see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_April_6#Category:Palestinian_people_of_Syrian-Assyrian_descent. That will leave Lana Albeik who is already categorised within Category:Emirati people of Palestinian descent and Category:Emirati people of Syrian descent, which are more accurate; even if she identifies as Palestinian, she is currently also within other Palestinian categories. IMHO she should also be removed from "Syrian" categories including Category:Syrian people of Palestinian descent. – Fayenatic London 21:44, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Fayenatic london: meanwhile User:Starklinson added two other articles, both about people with one Syrian parent. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:05, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- OK, purge instead of delete. Anis Sayigh and Maher Charif can stay, but the latter should not also be in the converse Category:Syrian people of Palestinian descent. – Fayenatic London 21:15, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Not seeing objections to FL's solution; if you do object, please speak up :)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, House Blaster (talk • he/they) 00:55, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]